anti-corruption bodies

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared the country's newly established anti-corruption body to communist-era secret police, drawing a sharp rebuke from current Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who called the comments tantamount to “violence against a public official,” Euractiv reported on September 15.

In just a few hours, Ukraine's government pushed through what would typically take at least two weeks of legislative procedure—amending, voting on, and signing into law a controversial bill that places the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) under the control of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.